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a. | 1492 | f. | 1770 | b. | 1619 | g. | 1773 | c. | 1739 | h. | 1775 | d. | 1746 | i. | 1776 | e. | 1758 | j. | 1787 | | | | |
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A
black navigator, Pedro Alonso Niño, travels with Christopher Columbus's first expedition to the
New World.
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The
U.S. Constitution is ratified. It provides for the continuation of the slave trade for another 20
years and required states to aid slaveholders in the recovery of fugitive slaves. It also stipulates
that a slave counts as three-fifths of a man for purposes of determining representation in the House
of Representatives.
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One
of the earliest slave revolts takes place in Stono, South Carolina. A score of whites and more than
twice as many blacks slaves are killed as the armed slaves try to flee to Florida.
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4.
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The
first book by an African American is published (in England) when Phillis Wheatley, then a slave,
publishes "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral."
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A
passage condemning the slave trade is removed from the Declaration of Independence due to pressure
from the southern colonies. The northern states will, however, one by one outlaw slavery, in a very
gradual process that will extend although the last will not do so until.
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6.
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Lucy
Terry, a slave, composes "Bars Fight," the first known poem by an African American. A
description of an Indian raid on Terry's hometown in Massachusetts, the poem will be passed down
orally and published in 1855.
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The
African Baptist or "Bluestone" Church is founded on the William Byrd plantation near the
Bluestone River, in Mecklenburg, Virginia, becoming the first known black church in North America.
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George Washington changes a previous policy and allows free blacks to enlist in the
Continental Army. Approximately 5,000 do so. The British governor of Virginia promises freedom to
slaves who enlist with the British.
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Crispus Attucks, an escaped slave, becomes the first Colonial soldier to die for
American independence when he is killed by the British in the Boston Massacre.
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10.
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A
Dutch ship brings 20 African indentured servants to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia.
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